I know you can spoof an address, but this does look like real peoples email headed meetings, and the content looks kosher too (read a few by accident).

The mails just landing in the inbox as would a nomal email, she's current putting it in deleted items but would like to know what the heck is going on!!

is it at all possbile to accidently pick up other mail due to the _ and . being treat the same??

Hi.

May I ask if the "correct" email address is shown in the "To" or "Cc" field ?

The reason she is getting them if the correct email address is not in the To or Cc fields is because her email address is in the Bcc field. The Bcc field should be used by all people sending to a group of email addresses, this protects all the email addresses from visibility from others, and also prevents any trojans/viruses harvesting them if one of the people happens to have a computer infection.

There are many reason for he actually getting these emails as already mentioned. Here are a few :-

1. Sender using wrong email address - easy to sort out by a quick reply email. If the sender uses the Bcc option to send, your actual email address may not show.

2. Email address re-used without any of the senders being aware. Sub accounts can be re-used by anyone after 90 days if deleted from a primary - fairly easy to sort out by replying to the sender saying you don't wish to receive any more.

3. Someone has set forwarding to the email address. However this can be determined by looking at the email headers, and the email address will be in the To field.

4. Spammers sending to multi email addresses - some with underscore, others with period and indeed using the same first/last and another ISP domain. Never reply to any of these, and the only thing to do is delete them or mark as spam via webmail in order to help train the Spamguard system.

Since spammers typically never see the bounce message to a failed email address, that address could already be on a spam email list - and if it was used before, it can easily be on many spam lists already.

Re: getting other persons email???

Hello folks. I'm fairly new to BT ISP (3 months) and since I joined I too have been getting other peoples emails. It doesn't look like a spam effort from the headers, but it keeps happening. Now I went for a simple (and was actually surprised I got it) email address and I do receive emails at that address that I expect (or test). I'll not bore you with all the headers but quite how an email addressed to Bellamore@btinternet.com (and if your on here Bellamore feel free to contact me) can then end up as:-

The above is only one example and I get several a week addressed to all sorts of different names.

Called BT once to ask about it - they had no idea.

As Andy I believe it was has said on another thread, email addresses should be unique, and apart from folks getting it slighthly wrong should only get expected mail - but these aren't even addressed to or close to mine!!